A SELBY schoolboy is to be disciplined after stealing a knife from a classroom.

The Year 10 pupil took the kitchen knife from a home economics classroom at Brayton College during the lunch break on Thursday.

Head teacher John Kesterton said the pupil had been seen waving the knife in a school corridor before a member of staff tackled him and confiscated the utensil.

He said that the knife was taken off the boy in a short space of time, but that one or two younger pupils had been worried.

Mr Kesterton said: "The boy is being disciplined."

Updated: 13:02 Saturday, January 18, 2003